IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Lou, go above. (anag.) Wexford village famed in song, where Father
Murphy led a revolt in 1798. (10)
5. Chin up! Come to Kerry resort with a 4 mile beach on the Dingle peninsula.
(4)
9. Act before the French to get the unemployment benefit. (4)
11. "Anarchism is a game at which the ------ can beat you." Shaw.
(6)
12. Dogged reversal for the 11 across in Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh
and Tyrone. (1.1.1.)
13. Jolly time spent in Glengarriff, undisturbed. (3)
14. Fuss at a party function? (3)
15. Cuts off always when there's a ship around. (6)
17. Throw the tar on the playing surface. (5)
18. Is it suitable for Pat to come around? (3)
19. Vehicle returns under prefix. (3)
21. Leg hair disposed of by Queen Bess's favourite tobacconist, involved
in massacre at Smerwick Bay. (7)
22. "Now there's ane --- of ane old song." -James Ogilvy on signing
the Act of Union of 1706. (3)
23. "I must --- down where all the ladders start in the foul rag and
bone shop of the heart." Yeats. (3)
24. At the rear of the boat in finest Erne traditions. (5)
25. Tom goes back in the miller's river, that will take him down a peg or
two! (6)
27. "No, ---, never no more, will I play the Wild Rover, ..."
Irish ballad. (3)
28. Shoe mender's tool found in Portlaw leather works. (3)
29. Put the Scottish headgear back on the floor. (3)
31. Run, and won in a brand new way. (6)
32. Amount speculated in Buttevant equitation. (4)
33. Hobo put out in Fermanagh underground cave system west of Enniskillen.
(4)
34. Fine, as then disturbed by the Irish Republican Brotherhood of old.
(3,7)
1. Old Celtic porcine totem seen in Drumshanbo arrangement. (4)
2. Late scold about small Meath town, an angling centre for Lough Sheelin.
(9)
3. Compete, that is, after victory. (3)
4. Once in place, a time to start the fairy story. (4)
6. Bernie ceded that his brother's girl be included. (5)
7. She ate holy mixture in Thurles establishment where on 1st November 1884
the G.A.A. was founded. (5,5)
8. Shorn raven in flutter over longest Irish water. (5,7)
10. Rod's own plate gets broken in County Dublin racecourse. (12)
11. Chop stew, nun. (anag.) Kildare steeplechasing course. (11)
16. Holy dabble up in West Cork resort near Schull under Mount Gabriel.
(10)
20. Label many in disguise in large Antrim linen town in the River Braid
valley.(9)
26. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his ----- without making
some other Englishman hate or despise him." Shaw (5)
28. Building feature evident in popular Charleville hotel. (4)
30. Sots are in the horrors and throw up! (4)
32. Primate involved in Ballina Pentecostal service. (3)
